Making sustainability transitions in collaborative spaces of making: Exploring opportunities and limitations in Turin

《Making sustainability transitions in collaborative spaces of making: Exploring opportunities and limitations in Turin》

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作者单位: Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Department of Arts and Culture Studies, Netherlands;Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Department of Arts and Culture Studies, Netherlands;Chair in Innovation and Regional Development, HEC Montreal, 3000.Chemin de La Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, QC H3T 2A7, Canada;School of Urban Planning, McGill University, 845 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada;Department of Land Economy, The University of Cambridge, Silver Street 19, CB3 9EP Cambridge, UK;School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, PR China;CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA;Department of Technology and Society, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4404, United States of America;SUNY Korea, Republic of Korea;Stony Brook University USA;Kelley School of Business, Indiana University USA;Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture, Building Environment and Civil Constructions, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, Milano, Italy;School of Public Policy and Administration, Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, PR China

摘要: In recent years, makerspaces and FabLabs have proliferated in urban settings. Such venues provide shared workspace, (digital fabrication) tools, and knowledge, lowering the barriers for citizens to engage in DIY (Do It Yourself), and the design and building of artefacts. In recent years, scholars have hailed the return of small-scale manufacturing, independent craft production and making practices to cities. This shift is by some seen as pre-figuring a more progressive and inclusive discourse on urban development, one that is attentive to local communities’ productive needs and opportunities, and that moves us away from the hitherto dominant consumption-centred paradigm of the creative city (Carr & Gibson, 2016; Grodach, 2017; Grodach et al., 2017). Drawing on empirical data collected in Turin in 2021, the paper investigates how and under what conditions community-led spaces centred on making may hold potential as sites of urban vitalism, reconfiguring production and consumption in more democratic, inclusive and sustainable ways. The findings consider a number of emerging tensions, relating to questions of regulating open access, managing community participation, and negotiating project-based versus changing habitual practices.